hi bernard

Many thanks once again for your speedy response. I will look at SyncToy2 when I get a chance.

It is not desperate at the moment. I have very little stuff on my laptop and it is easy just to do a weekly copy.

All my other stuff is on my desktop running under XP and back-up runs OK there. Though I do copy my most valuable data manually to another External Drive.

Many thanks once again.

Cheers

MikeL2